BMB Seminars: Spring 2023
Seminars will be held in CN 1209 unless noted otherwise

Date

Speaker

 
SPRING 2023    
January 20 Muthusamy Thangaraju, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, AU
Title: GPR109A activation limits renal cyst formation in autosomal polycystic kidney disease
 
March 3 Waaqo Daddacha, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, AU
Title: Cellular dNTP pool and DNA damage repair overlap: a novel therapeutic target for refractory cancer
 
March 10

Ben Woolbright, PhD
University of Kansas Medical Center,Dept. of Urology
Title: Intersection of microbiome, aging, and inflammation in Bladder Cancer

 
March 24 Rafal Pachoiczyk, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, AU
Title: Implementation of paired single cell RNA and T cell Receptor sequencing in longitudinal monitoring of whole blood samples from cancer patient on in-house clinical trials
 
April 14 Qin Wang, PhD

GRA Eminent Scholar,Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine
Director, Program for Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Discovery, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Title: Targeting GPCR signaling for Alzheimer’s disease

 
April 21 Becca Delisio
BCB Graduate Student Final Defense 
Title:  Increasing Efficacy of Immunotherapies Through the Modulation of HSF1 Expression
 
May 5 Kumar Manicassamy, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, AU
Title: TBA
 
May 12 Mariana X. Byndloss, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Title: TBA
 
May 19 Babak Baban, PhD
Professor, Oral Biology
Title: TBA
 
May 26 Michael G. Bartlett, PhD
University Professor, Associate Dean for Science Education, Research & Technology
College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia
Title: TBA